OPINION:
President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that he would pardon most of the Jan. 6 defendants during his first hour in office (“Trump vows pardons for Jan. 6 defendants ‘in the first hour’; named Time’s Person of the Year,” web, Dec. 12).
The Justice Department, being its usual helpful self, somehow sent a message to all the Jan. 6 defendants, informing them that accepting a pardon would be a confession of guilt.
Well, isn’t that interesting? President Biden just pardoned his son, so the same confession of guilt would apply, right?
Now, we all know already that Hunter Biden is guilty of a federal weapons violation in Delaware and a tax evasion violation in California, but what about “all crimes he committed or may have committed” between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024? Wouldn’t those have to be enunciated if, in fact, accepting a pardon equals a confession of guilt?
BOB SEGAL
Burke, Virginia
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